By NED X. GRIFFEN

* The CIAC moved its finals to Arute Field at Central Connecticut after three years at The Rent.

* The CIAC's football committee has talked amongst themselves about the addition of a fifth division in 2015. It could either be an open division, an all co-op/tech school division, or for a fifth class.

* The Shoreline Eight of the Pequot Football Conference are looking for a new suitor. They talked to Southern Connecticut Conference commish Al Carbone Monday.

Whelp, the SCC has six Class M schools — East Haven (459 boys), Foran of Milford (474), Hillhouse of New Haven (451), Law of Milford (490), Lyman Hall of Wallingford (499), and Sheehan of Wallingford (450). None are "too big" for the Eight to play.

Odds are that the SCC would add a third division to evenly break up 27 schools. Reckon it would look something like this:

(Hand was placed in D-1 instead of North Haven because of its pedigree. East Haven was placed in D-3 as it would be one of the shortest trips for the Eight, and because it's been the SCC's most downtrodden program — it's 9-61-1 over the last seven seasons.)

No idea how the SCC would schedule interdivision games. A school's size doesn't equate to winning, but it wouldn't be right to schedule a Coginchaug and Morgan against a Cheshire or Xavier. It wouldn't benefit of them either.

Aside from figuring out crossovers, the Eight and the SCC look like a swell fit.

The ECC may be a better fit based on both logistics and size (the majority of its teams are Class M or S.)

No offense to the Eight, but it's best they don't go to the ECC. And it pains us to write that as we have a special place in our heart for the Pequot and its small-town charms.

Every league in the state has its issues, but the ECC may be the most dysfunctional when it comes to football.

There's been too many times in which an ECC team has reacted to being scheduled against a slightly bigger school as if it were facing Alabama. On a field filled overrun by hungry wolverines. And they have to wear jerseys made out of Spam, too.

It doesn't help that Bacon Academy and Woodstock Academy, two of the league's larger schools, have two of the youngest programs and have struggled.

The presence of Norwich Free Academy is another issue as it's one of the state's largest schools (1,065 boys). That written, no one in the ECC complained about playing the Wildcats when they were a consistent loser in the eighties and nineties.

The addition of the Eight would force some ECC schools to move up a division to accommodate its new members.

Yeah, good luck with that. The league couldn't get anyone to move into the Large Division next season, resulting in a 4-6-5 division format.